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UofL LAW: Graduation, Awards, and Honors

Kentucky Law Review (Free subscription) | 57 minutes ago

From UofL Law's Blog, Awards Program Honors Successes; Graduates Celebrate Completion of Program On Friday, May 9, members of the law school's graduating class came together with family and friends to be recognized for their work in law school and to celebrate the completion of this phase in their education. The law school has a rich history of both academic excellence and service to the community....

New Law Titles from the University of California Press

Law Librarian Blog (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Details below the folod. [JH] The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All, by Peter Linebaugh The Health Care Revolution: From Medical Monopoly to Market Competition, by Carl F. Ameringer Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint, (2d ed.), by...

WILD Foundation's Handbook on International Wilderness Law and Policy

Law Librarian Blog (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

A Handbook on International Wilderness Law and Policy Edited by Cyril F. Kormos List Price: $39 408 pages WILD Foundation (March 2008) Book Description. A Handbook on International Wilderness Law and Policy, published by The WILD Foundation and Fulcrum Publishing,...

Targeting Blacks: Drug Law Enforcement and Race in the United States

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New report from Human Rights Watch: "Ostensibly color-blind, the US “war on drugs” disproportionately targets urban minority neighborhoods, Human Rights Watch and The Sentencing Project said in two reports. Although whites commit more drug offenses, African Americans are arrested and...

• Editorial: Drug war's two faces - Sacramento Bee

Brent Walker on ADF's Threat to IRS Regulations

Blog from the Capital (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

An AP story over the weekend picked up on the news that the Alliance Defense Fund is actively recruiting pastors to violate their churches' tax-exempt prohibition on electioneering. Baptist Joint Committee Director Brent Walker is quoted on one important, often...

Brown: "Complete" Accrual Taxation

TaxProf Blog (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Fred B. Brown (Baltimore) has posted "Complete" Accrual Taxation, 33 San Diego L. Rev. 1559 (1996), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Under the realization rule, accrued gains and losses generally are not taken into account for income tax purposes...

Professional Reading: Dignity as a New Framework, Replacing the Right to Privacy

Law Librarian Blog (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Jeremy Miller (Chapman) has posted Dignity as a New Framework, Replacing the Right to Privacy in SSRN. The article will appear at 30 Thomas Jefferson Law Review 1 (2007). Here's the abstract for this very interesting work: Privacy if not...

Simple Spark Catalogs Web Apps

Law Blog Metrics (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Simple Spark catalogs some 8,500 of the web apps. Each application is sorted by category and subcategory, and displayed with a brief screenshot and description. Users can also add reviews and ratings, and developers (or anyone else) can contribute additional...

Impact of Twitter demonstrated with news of earthquake in China

Real Lawyers :: Have Blogs (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Noticed a few minutes ago news of a 7.8 earthquake in China. Didn't get the news from CNN or the Internet, but from Twitter . Robert Scoble , who presumably picked up word of the Earthquake via Twitter, shared the news with those of us following him on Twitter. When I couldn't find any news of the earthquake at CNN or Google News, I went to Tweetscan , which allows you to monitor Twitter discussion...

weekend report

Law and Letters (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Well, I'm thankfully fully recovered from the virus from hell. I recovered sufficiently by Thursday, just in time to take a final I was ill-prepared for on Friday. But I'm still working on papers until 5/16. After which, I will take two days off (it being the weekend and all), and...go back to work to my dissertation research and editing articles and working on a conference paper. Hmm. Looks like it'll...

Where Did Your Federal Dollars Go in 2006?

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Two new reports from the U.S. Census Bureau: "The federal government disbursed $2.45 trillion in domestic spending in 2006, according to two reports published by the U.S. Census Bureau. That represented an 7.5 percent increase in federal spending over 2005....

Opening: Digital Information Management Librarian, Texas Tech University Law Library

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Are you looking for a low cost of living, family-oriented, "Five Star Metro" to live in? But, do you also need a dynamic, growing place to work with collegial and team oriented staff? We have the ideal opportunity for you...

Blinded by Political Hatred

Law and Letters (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Only the right-wing blog o sphere could turn a reference to the preamble of the United States Constitution as a manifesto for Big Government, just because a Democrat said it.

This Month's SSRN Rankings

Concurring Opinions (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Following up on postings in February 2008 and May 2007, here's this month's SSRN download ranking, measured by total new downloads. (The numbers in parenthesis is the ranking from February. Total new downloads for these fifty institutions: 914,252) 1 George...

It ain't over

Jack Bog's Blog (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Lawrence "Yogi" Berra turns 83 today....

SOCIALIST BLASPHEMY

raimondo | 04/12/2008

ITALY-BOSELLI POLITICAL LEADER USES JESUS FOR THE SOCIALIST PARTY PROPAGANDA. The Boselli's Socialist Party promotes anti-christian laws; gay's civil rights, abortion, pornography, and other immorality's laws.So by Socialist Party Jesus Christ promotes all the Socialist immorality's laws-IT IS A BIG BLASPHEMY!